Fishing near Amherst in Hillsborough County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 184
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 366
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Amherst Fishing Photos

My First Bass near Amherst

My First Bass

A little over 2lbs
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Second is the best... near Amherst

Second is the best...

Actually weighed this guy out to 2.7lbs. Not bad for my second bass in a day, and EVER :)
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Lincoln Pond near Amherst

Lincoln Pond

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Little Bab near Amherst

Little Bab

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Baboosic Lake in Merrimack/Amherst NH is a great lake to fish for Bass!
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Here's another pic of Baboosic Lake in Amherst/Merrimack NH!
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Top Fishing Spots near Amherst

Dream Lake
Dream Lake

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Jakes Pond
Jakes Pond

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Lincoln Pond
Lincoln Pond

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Little Baboosic Lake
Little Baboosic Lake

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Baboosic Lake
Baboosic Lake

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# Reviews: 2
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Beaver Pond
Beaver Pond

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Amherst Area Fish Species

Recent Amherst Fishing Reports

Drove past it 1,000 times and finally fished it. Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

Drove past it 1,000 times and finally fished it.

Lincoln Pond - Amherst, NH. -

A warm water pond that feels like your fishing in someones back yard, which, you kind of are... I think?
They are even so nice as to put out trash ...

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Amherst Pond Fishing Report May 16, 2016

Amherst Pond

Amherst -

Small little pond in the back of one of my friends house....

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Sunny Tuesday Fishing Report May 15, 2008

Sunny Tuesday

Unknown Lake, Merrimack, NH -

Sunny warm and breezy, great day for fishing...

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Souhegan River, Milford Fishing Report May 10, 2010

Souhegan River, Milford

Souhegan river -

Great place for beginner fly fishing. this is where I take my students ofr their first time "on the water". can almost guarantee gettign int...

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place on side of road Fishing Report Jul 16, 2020

place on side of road

wallace road bedford -

i used a chatter bait and lost 3 pickerel used worms and caught a few sunfish saw a few bass perfect place with shade under bridge
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Night of the Living Pout. Fishing Report Jun 11, 2013

Night of the Living Pout.

Naticook Lake - Merrimack, NH -

My first night fishing excursion of the season. Though slightly rainy it was still a good time.
I had also never been to Naticook Lake before, so I...

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Baits and Tackle used near Amherst

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  • mepps lure
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • mepps lure
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • Green Lizards
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • All types of baits
  • tiki worms
  • live, rubber, spinner

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.

Creature Check Prices

  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot

Minnow Check Prices

  • pinners
  • Large shiners
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Live minnows
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnow
  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait

Lizard Check Prices

  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Swimming the frog through the pads

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/4 ounce
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • White Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • Copper John, under a EHC
  • Prince & Copper John

Worm Check Prices

  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • I tried wacky-rigged yum dingers, a jitterbug, a mepps rooster tail, texas-rigged dingers, grubbs, and a rapala original floating minnow. Nothing worked on the bass that are supposed to be in here.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • mepps
  • mepps #2
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • sluggos
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Crankbait Check Prices

  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.
  • shallow running crank baits
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • Silver shad crank
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • Black n blue jig n pig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Wolly Bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • Chatterbait
  • Daredevil

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
    One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
    All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • worms and P.bait
  • Shiners
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.

    all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn

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